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An example of work by Arbit Blatas
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following is from "The New York Times", January 20, 2001:
Recreated
by the artist after disappearing in a warehouse theft seven years ago,
a series of paintings of scenes from Kurt Weill's "Threepenny Opera"
have surfaced at a Manhattan gallery.
The 19 works by the
painter and sculptor Arbit Blatas, who died in 1999 at the age of 90,
are on view with a film by Mr. Blatas's widow, Regina Resnik, the
mezzo-soprano and stage director, through Jan. 27 at the Leubsdorf Art
Gallery at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue.
Mr. Blatas, a
Lithuanian-born member of the School of Paris, attended the opera's
premiere in Berlin in 1928 and based his paintings on a 1950's revival
at the Theater de Lys in Greenwich Village. The production starred
Weill's widow, Lotte Lenya, and included Ed Asner, Jerry Orbach, Jerry
Stiller and Jo Sullivan Loesser. Many of the actors are recognizable in
the paintings.
The originals were to go to a Weill museum in
Dessau, Germany, before they were stolen from a Manhattan storage
facility in 1994. Mr. Blatas recreated them from photographs.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Lithuania, Arbit Blatas was a painter, sculptor and stage
designer who settled in New York City. He studied in Paris at the
Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and the Academie Julian and was a
member of the Salon d'Automne where he also exhibited.
Other exhibition
venues included the Carnegie Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy, the
Santa Barbara Museum and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Source:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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Biography from Odon Wagner Gallery:
| Arbit Blatas was born in Kaunas Lithuania, to Russian parents. He
studied in Russia at a school for artistically gifted children and
later at the Academy in Berlin. By the age of fifteen he was
exhibiting artwork in his native country.
In 1929 he began to exhibit regularly at the Salon D’Automne and the
Salon des Tuileries in Paris. At the age of twenty-one, he became
the youngest member of the School of Paris and a friend and colleague
to many of the great figures in the Parisian art world such as
Vlaminck, Utrillo, Soutine, Picasso, Derain and Matisse. Blatas
eventually painted or sculpted them all and his forty-nine portraits in
oil and bronze are considered a unique document of that period in Paris.
Blatas
is known for his diverse talents as colourist, draftsman, sculptor and
set designer, with his unique expressionist style remaining throughout
his career.
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